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 Yup and maybe “public pool” on your start9 node which I’ve never done. 

You don’t need lightning with a solo pool because a solo pool will just send whole coins (!) to the address you’re using. Lightning is only used for smaller payments because the transaction fees on chain for repeated payouts might eat too much of the reward up - hence use lightning instead if you’re mining with a small amount of hash on a collaborative pool.